Does Black Flag stand for anarchy, or is it the insect killer?
CHUCK: It does stand for anarchy. GREG: Yeah, it’s not the insect killer. TIM: What are your ideas about anarchy? CHUCK: My definition of it is, a commitment to change, no system. Cuz the world really is anarchy. But a person committed to it is committed to destruction of the status quo. So anybody who’s pushing what exists, then is at least one of the spoons in the big soup of life. PHIL: Who writes most of the material? You do? GREG: Yeah, most of it. But other people in the band write something too. TIM: What are your songs about? GREG: The songs that are important to me are mostly very personal, and they deal with my own feelings. DEZ: They deal with everyday things that may happen to you. CHUCK: They deal with emotions, and It’s a way of getting them out. Our basic viewpoint is personal. TIM: What are the things that drive all of you to be so intense on stage? GREG: We just play like how we feel it, we never really analyze it like that. CHUCK: It’s the only way out. DEZ: Any other
